Your sundays casual, well I wish it was my Sunday's casual. I've never been a fan of Swiss Army but this watch caught me by surprise. Fell in love with it at first sight not many watches now a days can maintain that simplicity of being a vintage with modern amenities. It's a Victorinox with the green face and the smooth stitched brown leather makes for a perfect casual watch to last you a lifetime. Your definately going to want to roll up your sleeves to show off that green face off found it here on Swiss for $395

Unfortunately for Chile another devastating earthquake has destroyed much of the infrastructure in Chile's second largest city, Concepcion but the death toll has been in no way comparable close to Haiti's earthquake with over 200,000 people reported dead Chile's death dole is approximately 400 people as of today.

Santiago in Chile

I'm lying. Well just a little, but you really didn't hear of it because it was never released in theaters only to DVD or straight download but it's not a horrible movie just a bad one. It star's Cuba Gooding and Miguel Ferrer, in what's suppose to be a big boss vs. small fry movie but It reminded me of Shotta's the Jamaican film if you watched Shotta's and Scarface then your pretty much going to guess what happens next for the whole film.

Never seen Cuba play such a hardcore role before he definitely does not have the voice for it nor the look but I still have to commend him as he did a pretty good job and kept me entertained. The story is about Cuba being loyal to his ruthless boss, who you find out why in the dead last 5 seconds of the movies. Cuba then gets a hunch that someone wants to kill his boss so when the boss goes to check it out ends up killing "The Donald trump of the crime business" who actually answers to the big boss who was the one who initially wanted to kill him not the employee who he killed. Stupid huh? Can guess what happens? Oh yes your right! lol Don't watch this unless you have nothing else to watch please don't.

My rating 4 out of 10

Thats manipulation which I really don't approve of but I guess I really shouldn't be complaining with the celebrities because they're not doing something completely wrong this is their job "Being Famous" so they need to make money from it right? Well they shouldn't go about it that way exploiting teenagers and girls who love them because of how they dress. Want to know who I'm talking about?

Kim's App and even worst Heidi and Spencer's Apple Application..

Poster children for everything that's wrong with celebrities -

I thought I saw them all until I saw The Brothers Bloom, by them I mean Con-Artiste movies, this movie which stars Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz is about two brothers who grew up as orphans going from house to house in their youth until they realized their potential in being professional lairs for money.

The perfect con, one where everyone gets what they want including the person being conned.

The movie has a small cast and what I would consider class C actors still kept me entertained I can feel the director trying very hard to take his film to the next level by trying to introduce some action adventure in this drama/crime movie. The movies plot can be summed up very quickly though without giving away the joy of actually watching it, firstly the brother bloom realized 25 years later after conning people from he was a child that he wants to stop! But Big brother won't allow it so he decided to pull the last con, hopefully for him the ultimate con, by conning little miss heiress of 1 million US, but this is what sets it apart from other movies like this in its class, it makes you wonder what is real from what isn't and you start to question if the brothers are against each other the movie takes you down that adventure to you to places like Berlin, Montenegro, Greece, Prague, New Jersey and even Mexico, I love movies like that.

How can I leave out the Beautiful Bang Bang! Sounds like a Flinstones character right? Well she's the girl in this picture above. Her script for this movie must have been pretty short because she says practically noting for the whole film but she's pretty awesome she's just a new addition to they crew, but plays a nice role and definitely helps add to the action that the director clearly was trying to hard to add to the movie.

Overall it's a great comedy, action, crime, adventure, lying! movie so enjoy! Not in my top 10 but definitely something to kill time to watch.

My ratings 6 out of 10.

Today I registered for my diet on "http://caloriecount.about.com." It's suppose to help me get to my ideal weight by this time next year well we'll see how well I do. It's not like I'm fat or anything I just need to get back in shape before it gets out of hand.

Don't you just hate horizontal websites?

40, 44, 38 or 46 days?

A while ago I was on twitter and saw a post about lent's 46 days but I said to myself from I been going church when I was little I know lent to be 40 days and 40 nights, they even have a song which got stuck in my head about 40 days and 40 nights and I'm absolutely sure that Lent ends on Holy Thursday.

Well have any of you ever counted the amount of days till Holy thursday from Ash Wednesday? I did a while ago and I counted 44 days. I wondered why was everyones impression of Lent to be 40 days then? I thought about leap years but that still wouldn't make it 40 days that'd make it 40 on some leap years not all, dependent on the days of easter so it really made me do some research and even though I found an explanation it still wasn't 100% correctly logically so I just guess it's just easier to use thats a perfect multiple of 10 maybe it justs sounds nicer? Right?

No.

The technical reason behind the 40 days is the fact that Lent does not include the holy Sundays it incorporates but if you count it then you get 38 days excluding the six Sundays they do not count as those six Sundays are considered to be a celebration of easter. It gets deeper though. Clearly it's just a period and the technicalities shouldn't matter but I realize it's a thing of culture. Lent is observed in two different ways around the world split into a eastern Christian Churches and the western Christian Churches which names the period "Great Lent" and doesn't start the period until the following Monday after ash Wednesday which is celebrated as "Clean Monday" and sticks to the actual 40 days ending the period 9 days before the easter celebrations.

The spiritual reason behind the 40 days are more abundant but then it makes you question the likelyhood of these things actually lasting exactly 40 days but the spiritual reason is because firstly after the flood that destroyed the earth, it rained for 40 days and nights, secondly the Hebrews who were looking for the promise land searched for 40 days before they found it also Moses fasted for 40 days before he received the ten commandments and last and most important is that Jesus in preparation for his ministry went into the wilderness where he was tempted for 40 days whilst he fasted, thus the spiritual reasoning of the 40 days of lent.

From the information I've laid out here your suppose to start wondering now that maybe we have it wrong on the western side of the world? With what they say and what they do right? I think some Catholic churches in the states realized this simple technicality and have extended their Lent period to be 46 days ending on the Saturday after Holy Thursday and then subtracting the 6 Sundays they celebrate the mini-easter thus by making it 40 days.

All in all I found out though that the days of Easter is what constitutes what day is Ash Wednesday which constitutes how long Lent will be. For example this year Ash Wednesday is today (Feb 17th) next year Ash Wednesday will fall in March (March 9th) so once ever seven years they won't need to worry about those extra days that the Lent would bring about because all in all Lent is what comes before we celebrate that Christ who died, rose again three years later thats the complete focus here. So despite the technicalities I hope you do realize the importance of this period and please to note I'm not just focusing on the technicalities, I am actually planning on giving up "Going out" and "Eating after 11pm" for the period of Lent to help in my preparation and reflection before Easter.

Thanks for reading this post!

Andre S.

This post is nothing really just a way for me to kill some time. I saw a couple of pictures and thought that the photographer did an amazing job so I just thought I'd share it with you guys.

"War is unforeseeable"

and remember "sometimes it's necessary to climb the mountain of conflict." lol.

This funny British comedy is a must see! A movie based on an impeding war and the decisions from Britain's Minister and staff, intertwined with the US Governments secrecy about newly formed committee's. This movie is fast pace and will keep you laughing for the entire film.

The movie's brilliance lies in the fact that they take such grave matters of importance, complicated and sensitive topics such as war and break it down into in home entertainment in a very professional manner without making it a bad comedy. This lies in the roles of the heads of state of both in the US and London, serious people or rather people who should be deemed as serious but break down their layers for us to see how they react as real people, from Minister's who want to masturbate in their hotel room but scared that the media would get a hold of such information to assistants who have never been in a motorcade and shows off their excitement.

The movie brings you back and forth though showing how the media can complicate any matter and also showing you how small problems for ministers can balloon into your career being on the line. After watching this movie though I have came to the conclusion that British people (Don't make the mistake to call them English!) are people of sarcasm and slick talking entertainers. The movie though is filled with profanity but in a funny way.

So this is the first of my blog posts which will start my movie reviews. If any one out there has any clue who I am they will know about my second half her name I shall leave out of this post but the significance of me bringing her up before my first review of my movie post is that she will be relived to know that I have substituted her as the forum which I express my thoughts about the movies I watch, duly note I watch a lot of movies so for that I think she will be grateful.

Also my reviews aren't just reviews, it's both my ideas and thoughts from watching the movie and where did I get this idea from? A movie! Julie & Julia!

On to leap year now...

So girl in picture, first name Amy last name Adams she's kind of a big deal but I loved her in this movie she was pretty awesome as Anna. The girl who pretty much has it all the perfect job the perfect boyfriend and about to get the perfect apartment with her perfect boyfriend. Truth be told there so many Anna's out there that the movie seemed so boring to me it's almost as if you can predict what is going to happen. Girl has guy, guy suppose to propose but guy doesn't so girl gets sad, guy doesn't know so guy goes away on business without caring and girl runs after him.. so predictable? Yes! But for leap year this is where the movie begins when she's running him down and ends up very far and has to go on a journey to get to her boyfriend. Because she doesn't do this journey alone you get to see the story unfolds little perfect American girl with Mr. I don't care Irish boy, seriously think they end up together? They definitely sound like the cultural differences would get in the way but you'd have to watch the movie to see how it all ends but good movie by them all funny little twists towards the end is why I give it a 7 out of 10.

Nothing more because it's still kind of predictable.

Not because I'm following Jay-Z, not because I'm might be Gothic and dark and definately not because its the only color clothes I buy.

I like black stuff simple! My computers are black my bags are black my phone is black the case for it is black my wallet, almost everything. I also like leather too. So my question is if you like something you can wear why not wear it? that's as far as it goes.

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I grew up in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica.

And I never knew what was race, I really didn't. I thought we were all the same people just some had different colors because everyone is unique you know some darker some shorter some skinner but I guess as I got older I started to open my eyes. Quite frankly it's upsetting this whole division of people into different racial classes,I watch a movie named Skin, which the whole movie (a true story) was about a female with a brown complexion who was born to light complexion Afrikaner parents and her struggle to be classified by the government in South Africa as "White" or "Black." Really? A whole movie about calling her black or white? I think I preferred my view when I was a child with no set racial divisions. Why is it necessary anyways? It only leads to problems, what good thing came out of dividing people like that? Please to explain it because I believe it creates sides, it only builds up anger, it creates a bond between some and preference for different racial classes.

But I guess seeing as how I had no choice in the matter and I was born of a certain race what then do I do, embrace it? fight it? or pretend it doesn't exist?

To tell the God honest truth before I use to completely avoid situations or even conversations that involve race, just like the teachers say, avoid touchy topics like "Race and Religion" but how smart is that? We all need to know where we come from our roots, culture, background and embrace it to have a vivid picture of how to shape our future, how to move away from this racial division right?

So yeah in this journey of educating myself about this whole topic it made me realize that race isn't such a bad thing it's just that our past has made it into a bad thing because of the way people were treated and are still being treated today. No need to be angry though, deal with these racial situations today like someone who is fully aware of these issues and know's how to look pass the past and look towards integration in the future see that were all alike were all human and I can guarantee you in most cases you'll be treated with the respect and dignity that you deserve despite the color of your skin. If not know that the world is still filled with ignorance but you can help by trying to help educate and open their minds. I love to hear when influencial educate themselves on sensitive issues and uses their powers for good!

This is a picture of Tyrese at MLK :

His twitter caption for this picture was:

"POWERFUL: This is the actual Grave site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Corretta Scott King and that's Ambassador Andrew Young MLK's Best Friend. Today has changed my life.. Atlanta has a lot of African American History wow...."

So in my view race shouldn't be an issue and the world should work towards integration of our people. Jamaica's motto sums up my view it is something I absolutely adore "Out of Many One People" and I think we've become successful in living up to it. Like I said, I never knew what race was I thought we were all One People.

Andre S.